History Now Essay From the President James G. Basker With its refrain “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton reminds us of the fundamental importance of authorship and ownership in shaping our national memory. Systematically excluded on the basis of... Appears in: 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020
Essay Jim Crow and the Great Migration Jonathan Holloway In September 1895, Booker T. Washington, the head of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, stepped to the podium at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition and implored white employers to "cast down your bucket where you are" and hire...